THE NARRATIVE ARC
Even In Prison Helping Others Helps Me Heal Myself
Teaching others helps me on my own path
“When you don’t acknowledge your own vulnerability you work your shit out on others. Stop working your shit out on other people.” — Brene Brown
When I was in the outside world, I would overthink everything when I had too much time on my hands. It was easier to blame my upbringing rather than look internally and see what I could change about myself to correct whatever was going on in my life. Why consider changing things about me, when I could just chalk it up to a fucked up childhood?
Don’t get me wrong, my traumatic upbringing had a lot to do with why I made some of the choices I did. However, that didn’t give me an excuse for behaving in the manner I did. The saying “hurt people hurt people” exists for a reason, and sadly, I hurt a lot of folks, more often than not my wife, who damn sure didn’t deserve it.
I’m thankful she decided I was worth waiting for to get my shit together. Not that I was going anywhere (other than prison I guess) but waiting for in terms of growing the fuck up and learning to take ownership of my bullshit and accountability for my actions.
